Ad Rutschman

Ad Rutschman coached football for 24 seasons, baseball for 13 seasons
and served as athletic director for 25 years. He is the first athletic
director emeritus in the history of the college.

Rutschman's football teams won three NAIA Division II national championships,
reached the postseason playoffs 13 times and won 15 conference titles.
He retired from coaching football in 1991 with a career record of
183-48-3 (.788).

From 1971 to 1983, Rutschman coached the baseball program, leading
the Wildcats to six conference championships and seven NAIA District
2 titles. In his first season as baseball coach, he guided Linfield
to the NAIA national championship.

He is the only college coach at any level to have won national titles
in both football and baseball. Three times, Rutschman was named
Division II football coach of the year. He was honored as the state
of Oregon's Slats Gill man of the year five times, more than any
other individual. Rutschman was named to the NAIA Hall of Fame in
1988, the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame in 1993 and was enshrined into
the College Football Hall of Fame in 1998.

During his 25-year tenure as athletic director, the college's sports
facilities took major leaps forward. The spacious and modern
athletic complex, including two new gymnasiums, a swimming pool
and multi-purpose field house, was constructed, a new baseball stadium
was erected and the tennis courts were relocated and expanded. Locker
rooms were renovated and a consession stand and ticket booth was
built. The field house,
a 26,600-square foot multi-purpose facility completed in 1995, was
named in honor of Rutschman and his wife, Joan, for their 27 years of service to the college. Rutschman continues to teach one course
in physical education administration at the college and serves in a part-time capacity as the special assistant to the vice president
of College Relations.